University of Missouri · MU Institute for Data Science & Informatics

Computation Informatics & Machine Intelligence

CIMILab — Est. 2024

Building next-generation machine intelligence and computational systems for data-driven insights, intelligent decision-making, and real-world impact.

12+
Publications
6
Active Projects
8+
Lab Members
2
Years Active
12+
Publications
6
Active Projects
8+
Lab Members
2
Years Active

Why CIMILab stands out

A lab built for rigorous, transparent, and translational AI

Our work is shaped by open-science habits, strong evaluation, and a clear focus on research that can matter beyond the benchmark.

Reproducible by design

Versioned data, documented training settings, and scripted evaluation make our experiments inspectable and repeatable.

Research with purpose

We connect foundational ML methods to medical imaging, biomedical NLP, and practical deployment questions.

Built for collaboration

Our projects and publications are structured to invite collaborators, students, and external partners into the work.

Four Research Pillars

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Research Projects

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● Active machine intelligence

DSANet-ISLES

Interpretable multi-architecture ensemble for ischemic stroke lesion segmentation on the ISLES benchmark.

medical ai interpretable ai
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● Active computational informatics

DERNet — Spinal AI

Dual encoder representation network for spinal lesion detection and classification on VinDr-SpineXR.

medical ai radiology
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● Active translational ai

BioMed-LLM

Biomedical foundation model fine-tuning and evaluation suite for clinical NLP tasks including QA, summarization, and NER.

foundation models clinical nlp
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Latest from CIMILab

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Research July 1, 2026

BioMed-LLM Repository Officially Launched

CIMILab is proud to announce the official launch of the BioMed-LLM repository — a suite of fine-tuned large language models for biomedical NLP tasks.

Publication June 15, 2025

Paper Accepted at ACL 2025 — BioNLP Workshop

Our work on biomedical LLM evaluation has been accepted to the BioNLP Workshop at ACL 2025.

Team January 10, 2025

CIMILab Welcomes New Graduate Researchers

CIMILab is thrilled to welcome two new graduate researchers joining for Spring 2025: Arpita Howlader and Samrat Kumar Dey.